Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

  Flannery O'Connor

  People, Suffering, Christ

• I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

• ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Struggle, Suffering

• You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pain, Effectiveness, Suffering

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